Jay-Z Would Say You Can Work For Yourself — Just Not Yet

It’s great to be your own boss, but don’t need to rush the process

“If you can’t buy the building, at least stock the shelf (word)

Then keep on stacking ’til you stocking for yourself, uh” — Jay-Z, “Entrepreneur”

Talk to me, maaaan! We back at it with another installment of your soon-to-be-favorite Medium column, “What Would Hov Do?,” where I guide you through the pitfalls of life with the help of Jay-Z’s discography. The feedback has been love. I’m throwing up the Roc sign as we speak.

Another week, another question. Our anonymous reader asks:

“I resigned from my job in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic because I wasn’t feeling it. Now what do I do — look for another job or start my own business?”

This is a really good and fair question. The pandemic has forced many of us to re-evaluate the systems that we’ve adopted as normative, right? Before the whole globe shut down, getting your boss to approve remote work (if you’re even in a privileged enough space and industry to do so) was like battling them dragon-vampire-dogs on Lovecraft Country. We’re all looking at how we can be less reliant on the corporate machine to provide for ourselves and our families, including our rescue dogs. But with that, some of us have opted…